FCA design chiefs Ralph Gilles and Mark Trostle have announced the winners of a design contest encouraging fans to design the “wickedest and most outrageous” Ram truck in just 24 hours.
The sketch battle was used to promote this year’s Drive for Design content open to U.S. high school students in grades 10-12. They’ve been tasked with creating the “ultimate Ram truck of the future” and will need to submit their entries by May 1st.
A total of 10 winners were announced on Instagram by Gilles and Trostle. Gilles selected submissions sent in by Paul Piliste, Rezo Lomaia, Michael Stanfel, Morten Rabiee, and Joshua Reese while Trostle published sketches by Bryan Johnson, Robin Mathew, Ricky Ryan Goimarac, Jon Sibal, and Sean Smith.
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Most of the 10 are very futuristic. One of them, for example, has been designed as a tribute to the original Power Wagon from 1946 while another selected by Gilles (pictured above) almost resembles a Ram-branded moon buggy with a set of massive off-road wheels and tires, an elongated windshield and a striking front bumper.
Perhaps the most realistic of the Ram pickup trucks selected comes from designer Jon Sibal and has seen the front fascia of a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody grafted onto a lowered Ram pickup.
While the selected winners of the sketch battle don’t win any prizes, students competing in the Drive for Design contest will have the opportunity to win things like a Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16, an Apple iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil, and a scholarship to attend the Precollege Summer Experience Transportation Design program at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.
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